Post 3: Magical Realism

Love in the Time of Cholera is a great example of magical realism. It shows how one can truely love one person and never fully give their love to another even though they may have sex which is often a sign of love. Florentino falls in love with Fermina at a young age, but she does not return his love in the way she once thought that she did. Through her rebellious stage with her father, she fabricates a love for Florentino. After maturing she realizes that the love was never there and moves on. She eventually marries Dr. Urbino for his money and power, but never forgets Florentino. Florentino lives his life always thinking of his Fermina. He was going to keep his virginity for her, but after losing it to another he realized he could keep his love for Fermina and protect his heart from feeling the pain of losing her by having sex with others.

This is different from Science Fiction because it is not something that is of the future. It is a thing of the past. An event that has been proven to have happened. Science fiction deals with future and imagination.Writers must create a world that is believable for the reader, but is also different from the world we live in today. Science Fiction must have some sort of element to the story that could be unbelievable, except that it becomes believable because of the way that the author wrote the story.

While magical realism is making something common become unreal, Science fiction is the creation of something that our world does not know of now. It is similar to an hypethesis of what is to come.